breaking news here on our athena national the crimean parliament unanimously vote for the region to become part of russia the move will be put to a popular ballot in ten days' time. my first they were going to go but somebody from the new coalition a leaked phone call between top european officials reveals the snipers firing at the crowds and police in kiev were allegedly hired by the opposition turned leadership. in the flying bullets just like this one. and our t.v. crew recalls how it was caught up in the sniper fire as a team filmed in a hotel in downtown pia. meanwhile revelations of the shootings are mind on being ordered by someone in the protest leadership failed to make it to the

house lines of western mainstream media. for hours it went unnoticed. as major media outlets stepped up the rhetoric against russia we will gather under reporting of key information on the violence in ukraine. it is four pm in mosque you're watching our national with me marina josh welcome to the program and breaking news an international the crimean parliament has voted to join russia the final decision will be made in a referendum in ten days time straight to our for more details on this. syria has a weekend see crimea is on the verge of a momentous decision there tell us more absolutely well that initially they were a friend that was supposed to. take place on the thirtieth of march but that had

that date has been changed by two weeks we're hearing that there should be only two questions on the referendum ballot and that is whether or not residents want to join russia and the second question is whether or not they want to go back to the constitution of the one nine hundred ninety two which does leave crimea within ukraine but with a much broader autonomy that it enjoys now now when asked about why all of a sudden this moves from the crimean legislators this is what they had to say on the matter. today we have taken a historic decision the referendum isn't two questions which should driven by popular will people do not believe in the legitimacy of the new government in kiev there receive information from all parts of ukraine about the situation deteriorates in there and people hiding in their houses now the question is whether russia is ready to accept us if the russian authorities decide to start the

procedures to let us join the country people can then vote and have their say. no that vote the vote for the referendum was held almost unanimously by members of the . regional parliament now when it comes to russia's response while they have the russian both russian president and the federation council which is the upper chamber of the russian government have received official petitions from the legislators in crimea when it came when it comes down to the russian parliament well they say they could be looking at the bill which could be looking at crimea as potential enter into the russian federation as early as next week why do crimean would be even interested in joining russia well we have to keep in mind that more than seventy percent of its population actually cite russian as their is that as their native tongue and more than fifty percent are actually ethnic russians or. or

anything so much for bringing us this obviated it really goes to reporting there well in ten days the locals will have to choose between two options one is to stay part of ukraine and the other to become part of russia. let's now well that would definitely be a momentous decision of course which could see a crane losing in a region of strategic importance and we can now discuss this with geo political commentator john why it has been following the crisis in ukraine and joins us live now thanks so much john for joining us here on our teeth or national talk about the situation so the decision. in the crimean parliament was unanimous there so why do you think the autonomy was to join russia. i think this is part of a process whereby the democratic rights of millions of people in crimea which were violated. by events in here are being restored. you know the idea that the legitimacy of kiev should be aware of just stand in

could be able to stand was delusional on the part of western politicians who support was taking place here and i think this also helps to for the stabilize the situation because there's no go there with the most closed participation. ukrainian slating towards civil conflict. and i think this is a further measure not regards to the security situation but most importantly to restore democratic way rates to millions of people who saw it so intimately committed by a couple weeks ago. now what do you make of the timing this referendum will be taking place i mean how much has it been spurred by the takeover of power in kiev well it's absolutely an extra couple who went to the core of. this also linked to negotiations that are going to take place and will have to keep

place but you must show the west and all the parties involved to try and come to some peaceful resolution but really i think the prospect of secession whims of a larger because we're not just talking about illegitimate illegitimate people proposed here we're talking. in those events and find the ministerial offices in kiev of be taken over by members of fascist parties this is quite astounding this is the first time the fascists of hans the are in europe not an awful thing to contemplate and surely the civilized world could not stand especially in russia which is a country which twenty five to fifty million people lost their lives in a war against fascism seventy years ago. well let's now look a little forward and talk about the upcoming referendum i mean of course we don't have a crystal ball but we can still make speculations and predictions there in your opinion

what will the outcome of the referendum be like. well it looks to me and i think it will to any even impossible observers. this will be an overwhelming indorsement more russians will in this affair so far. vote in favor of crimea becoming part of the russian federation. and in that light i mean if that does happen what will the reaction be from kiev. well the action. as it is know that this is unconstitutional this is a violation of ukraine's constitution but of course ukraine's constitution is already by a latino constitution it's no longer exists because of the actions of all the people involved in kiev among some of the fascists so you create a situation i will no longer exists that was violated torn up by the people involved in the illegitimate or we democratically elected government in kiev last

week. are john why political commentator think so much for sharing your views with us here on r t international meanwhile ukraine struggling to find a path from the turmoil morning the dozens who were killed in the bloodshed which rocked the streets of kiev several weeks ago now the images that you can see right now here have sent shock waves across the world over eighty people were killed in the country's worst violence in years and it's now been revealed the sniper is who were shooting a crowd at a police were allegedly in the pay of a former opposition well that's according to a leaked phone call between the e.u.'s foreign policy chief and the stony and foreign minister here is our t.s.p. are all over it with the details of the leak. we've heard from the stony and foreign minister he confirmed that yes his voice is all not recording now what he has said is that the message in that phone call is being misconstrued by the media he said that he didn't make any claims that any opposition leaders as they were at

the time were behind the shootings but we can have a little listen again now to exactly what he did saying is not much room for misconception so that carries i was stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not going to call rich but it was somebody from the new coalition now the the alleged use of snipers by in a coup of just forces and the bad good riot police who were just near behind me on independence square that was one of the the main causes of outrage around the world over eighty people were killed just behind me on independence square among men twenty six police officers if it does turn out that these claims are correct it could have potentially repercussions. and a video is circulating online which allows viewers to make certain conclusions about the sniper shootings in kiev let's now take a look but we have to warn you some of the food which is graphic well here's

a map of the area where people were killed the first part of the video was filmed from the position marked with a dot a man of with a shield in the middle is hit and as we can see the shot came from the right which is not where the police were and the map shows that the bullet came from the direction of hotel ukraine under total control of the mind rioters at the time and now let's look at the scene from camera to another shot is fired at an armed group of protesters but the focus is on this tree the bullet hits the trunk coming from the same direction and back to the map now. the shot seems to have been fired from somewhere very near where camera two was positioned which is an hotel ukraine and this protester looks over his shoulder clearly having heard the gunshots fired from behind. these are the pictures showing

a sniper's rifle being discovered in a car leaving mine down at the time of the protest the man searching it as parliament members here gave a shinseki who actually drove away in the car despite the demonstrators trying to stop him he's now to have the interim president of ministration and ask for no reason staggering need many believe it should help reveal the true face of those now in power in kiev. i sincerely hope those bills awareness amongst the people as a commentator said it was mentioned that you knew about this they know and they've sat on this information for a few days until it was leaked and what actually does this. really does not surprise me one bit one of the most powerful and universal. matches the spending i think is the visual propaganda and this is used in politics more than before so what. made. you convince you know actually the population of your

kids that americans that is ukraine needs to be saved from a democratically elected president. i think our respondents were caught up in the sniper fire in kiev while covering the clashes bowl it shattered the windows of a hotel room where our crew were staying and working as a trying to film the escalating street violence when the government collapsed special forces that have been tasked with ensuring order where it is abandoned by the new self-appointed authorities manning of the officers took refuge in crimea and that's were going off caught up with one of their commanders. at some point we clearly understood that this was no longer like the peaceful protests of two thousand and four and two thousand and seven this time it was all about provocation not only violent but dirty tactics by the rioters while we were on it we didn't

even have non-lethal weapons but the plan of those who masterminded this was to make the bird could force crumble to be moralized and pressure us to switch sides but that didn't happen and then came the worst the shooting rounds are fired at both sides but as i've already told you that if we didn't have any weapons it was so difficult to understand what was happening but officers just began falling to the ground one by one to what became clear people were dying from bullets but again no shots could have been fired by barrett could foresee and i'm sure there was some outside force a third party involved in the provocations and the deaths on both sides it was an organized team of professionals it's just like here is asking who was reporting from the front line of the violence in kiev summed up the detail. of the tragic events and he remembers the warnings from the riot police when he was reporting on the streets of kiev saying someone from the side of the protestors were firing

shots and then follow me on facebook and twitter to learn more. tensions are running high within ukraine and internationally with many media outlets adding fuel to the fire aggression has become a popular term used to describe russia's actions and as it is going to count has been finding out those strong words lack the backing of very fine information. aggression is the word that you often hear in the u.s. media and from u.s. officials with regard to russia's presence in ukraine what they fail to show is the aggression. it's very difficult to talk about aggression when you show thousands of people cheering for russia in different parts of ukraine right maybe that's why you don't see this kind of footage on us t.v. very often but if you do see this coverage in which russia's military presence

there in itself is presented as an intervention what the end curs and pundits often fail to mention is that you have an agreement under which russia has a lot to deploy twenty five thousand troops in ukraine it now has presumably sixteen thousand or so so you get a kick picture where the u.s. presents anything that goes against the interests of those who took power in kiev as an aggression and the revolution there as this peaceful takeover of power. the brave ukrainians took to the streets in order to stand peacefully against tyranny. to demand the barkers. so instead they were met with strikers who picked them off one after the other one wonders if the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them qualifies as standing peacefully according to secretary kerry a huge part of ukraine had no say in the power grab but my don secretary kerry

apparently present it as a triumph of democracy. we've heard no comments from him on the leaks conversation between the e.u. foreign affairs chief catherine ashton in a stony and foreign minister where they talk about evidence that why don't the leaders not you know college give orders to snipers and the media on something like this i mean you would expect breaking news everywhere we're talking about evidence that those who are now celebrating victory in kiev may have well ordered snipers to shoot both peaceful protesters and the police but no. none of that four hours it went unnoticed because it doesn't fit into the narrative does it but what the u.s. media was quick to pick up on were unverified reports like this one. robert serry has agreed to give up his mission here in ukraine he is of course the un special envoy to ukraine he's from the netherlands a father of three and he was taken against his will

a short time ago by militia so after a great deal of hysteria the un confirmed the envoy was not kidnapped but he did come across a group of protesters and the envoy who was apparently escorted by police at the time decided to leave to avoid further tension the general picture that you get is that of the u.s. mainstream media jumping on anything very fighter on verify to present russia as an aggressor without much or any knowledge of what's happening on the ground and u.s. officials wealth they continue their self-righteous tirade while being gauging actual acts of aggression around the world with innocent people dying every day in drone strikes are from violence in countries that were destabilized by the u.s. in washington i'm going to check on our team. we spoke to former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul who says washington doesn't practice what it preaches. for us to lecture anybody about violating sovereignty what about the

sovereignty of iraq and afghanistan and yemen and north africa. constantly being involved pakistani. missiles we have eight hundred bases around the world where one hundred thirty countries were always involved it seems in somebody else's election and we preach democracy we finally got democracy you know in egypt there was an election and of course we didn't like the person they elected but we said this go back to the military. i don't like hypocrisy for us to preach one thing at the same time behind the scenes we're doing things to stir up trouble for many many different reasons. well there are many pieces of the ukrainian possible that some leave out of side dot com has five questions at the western leaders choose not to answer log on and take a look for yourself and of course state with our international as we bring you the

latest on the situation and ukraine. watching nine hundred national live from moscow still to come in the program but not leaving the fight for their home. in a family with three children that we need to keep. coming out will be reporting on how one palestinian family standing its ground while israel plows ahead with its expansion program. the first issue that this government the interim government preoccupied itself which was the future of the russian language in ukraine and that's at a time when. the country is in cannes so that's the sort of shows you just read that government what's. the issue is you know what m.p.'s. too many people at least in the west. it's a disproportionate use of force and the day facto occupation of crimea.

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a child pornography case part of the official job was working on internet filters that would prevent children from accessing inappropriate content laura smith brings us more his name is patrick rock and he is in fact a veteran conservative policy advisor david cameron's deputy chief of staff he's been called cameron's fix and he's had what one might call unparalleled access to access to power over a very long time over the last four decades right there in the heart of government and the irony lies in the fights that he's also been closely involved in during us government policy on internet pornography felt and this is a man who was rested arrested recently on suspicion of what everybody's calling an offense with natives to child abuse images so not just pornography but what appears to be child's play. crissy now his arrest happened on february the twelfth and he

then resigned but this was all on the quiet downing street appears to have covered it up until it was confronted with its now over the last three weeks no one said anything about this but apart from the prime minister who apparently has known for three weeks he said he was very concerned that the matter should be handled correctly that he didn't want to brief preemptively on a criminal investigation against a member of his stuff but his critics who are mainly labor members of parliament opposition say that this raises a number of questions for example what level of security did have is that all this stuff that we don't know about it's also emerged by the way that had previously been accused of sexual harassment which was dealt with by his boss at downing street to a political figure rather than a civil servant they did not very usual so again some sort of oddity going on that the prime minister is being accused of a cover up and his labor critics say that this undermines the entire credibility

and effect of the government. online for you right now while their parents call tighter gun control on the streets children may be finding ways to buy guns via social networks facebook and instagram are now promising to crack down on users trying to sell guns to minors via social media more details just a click away on r.t. dot com. also there doctors in the us say they have curity baby with hiv by starting to even just hours after its birth for more on this medical breakthrough log on to our website. while israel is pushing for more homes being built on the occupied palestinian territory locals say they're being bullied and forced out of their homes are middle east correspondent went to meet a family who's been desperately fighting to stay on their land. omar had judges home has been passed down through the generations but now there's pressure on him to move television complaining he's on the wrong side of the wall israel is

building to separate the palestinian autonomy from israel. the commander if you. like drawn it fence behind and were done away with the gate so whatever you will do we're not leaving our house in our land i first made all mark two years ago then he told me he felt like he was living in a prison that he refused office to move i don't want money i want my one. two years ago detractors are busy planning a very old around his house but because it was on the israeli side of the border the plan was to surround his home with a five meter high electric fence and he always wife and three children wanted to leave they would need to go through an underground tunnel monitored by security cameras that would connect them to the other side of the wall and palestine we can you know expecting to find something different i thought we'd see it security cameras state of the art technology but instead what we found is much the same two

years have passed and nothing has been the malice or a new the israelis the occupation country we work slowly the boys in are slowly because they do not want to appear for the world as killers and. as you can see when they finish building this tunnel they will close it with a gate the owner of the house will have a key but no one can come and visit them without permission from the army and it should be within specific hours of omar is now sick and i'm able to work he doesn't even have the strength to go through the tunnel with me in the backyard i can't explain to you how i feel even animals have rights how can a family with three children and living in a cage feel almost vows he will fight for his home until the end policy r.t. one larger village palestinian autonomy. and it's on a voice on worlds apart is next so stay with r.t. international.

u.s. army specialist albert kelly the third is accused of running a scam in which he helped an afghan trucking company steal huge amounts of fuel by cooking the army books and making it seem as though the fuel had been used when in reality it was diverted they accuse kelly how of making in total twenty five thousand gallons of fuel vanish into a bureaucratic black hole and four dollars a gallon that is a lot of cash obviously this is wrong but in comparison to the profiteering made off of the war it is a joke that this guy's even going to jail think about the trillions of dollars spent on the post nine eleven wars of luxury tons of big companies have all gotten huge pieces of the murder pie like raytheon with their missiles lockheed martin with their jets and halliburton and blackwater and so on and so on hey when all these big companies note the system with big contracts during war why shouldn't the average grunt take part in alluding to what reason does this kelly guy have to not

also try to make a buck off the war it seems like in the world there are people who are often punished not because they steal but because they still far too little while not wearing nice suits but that shust opinion. but investigation the fishing industry reveals the hidden in troubled waters of fish fun day you have the pundit me because. i saw you spread all over and over this the most toxic food you have and who will profit defeats officials inquiry furthermore health restriction. really. what's inside the feeling.

on the marquee. some of the welcome to worlds apart with russia and the united states at loggerheads once again if you would remember that this week marks the fifth anniversary of the reset ceremony during which the russian and american officials pledged to put their relationship on a new more constructive flooding is the latest over charge a direct consequence of that reset well to discuss that i'm now joined by angelus down director of the santa for eurasian russian and east european studies at georgetown university dr stan thank you very much for taking part in the program well it's good to be in the program while periodic again facing one of the biggest crisis in bilateral relationship this time over ukraine and in your latest book the

limits of partnership here is russian relations in the twenty first century and you make a point that russia has always been extremely sensitive about the west and the united states in particular acting in its neighborhood now. we have never seen such a dramatic reaction from russia before and i wonder if this extraordinary reaction on the part of the russian president on the part of russia is also in a way every spawns two extraordinary actions on the part of the west and the united states in particular well first of all let me just go back to the five years ago when secretary hillary clinton met with foreign minister all of roles she presented him the reset button which said reset in english and it said pettigrew sky in russian and of course mr lavrov pointed out that that's the wrong word that's the word for overload in english it's part is that grew sky and then i remember coma son todd a headline the next day clinton lover of push the wrong button so in

a sense this is a relationship that has been overloaded there have been so many issues where we have disagreed there have been other issues where we have worked together and i see what's happened recently in ukraine obviously on a number of different levels what triggered it was the problems within ukraine itself and the dissatisfaction of the people with the government the failure to sign an agreement with the european union is a symbol of that but it goes much deeper than that but isn't it also true that the united states and the west and russia to some extent were all too eager to exploit some of the disenchantment that the population that the people of ukraine felted at the edges and when it comes to the west it is true that many people on my down of were dissatisfied but that doesn't mean that. a democratically elected government needed to be deposed especially within a couple of months from the next elections well i don't think anyone in the west

foresaw that there was going to be you know what was going to happen in november i mean the e.u. was offering ukraine a reasonable package obviously not as much as president putin and russia offered mr young a car which later on. in the united states was the. wasn't really present i mean the united states basically was allowing or wanted the europeans to work out their deal with ukraine the u.s. really only stepped in once all the demonstrations of begun and it wasn't clear what was going to happen now i understand that the russian media have portrayed this as something supported by the u.s. by the europeans and that these are quote unquote fascists but you know the situation there is much more complicated and this is not something that anyone in the west wanted to see a breakdown of governmental structures in their stand let me take an issue with what you just said about the russian media and their portrayal of the station after everything we saw happening on my the number of american officials showing out

there with. those intercepted phone conversations it's really hard to believe that the united states was this impartial observer but switching gears a little bit. to use the president putin and made his first appearance before our russian media here how the news conference which gave him a chance to explain his rationale and he was adamant that russia's actions were represented a legitimate response to what he sees as illegitimate seizure of power and now in addition to answering questions he also posed one and let me play it for you i would like you to answer what he actually asked. given you know for me there's a big question. your my colleagues. and you know i've been discussing you the ukrainian crisis over the lot of our partners has this been done. here worked in the state department he understands how decision

makers in washington think what was the point as far as americans are concerned of siding with this unconstitutional government or endorsing this and. institutional change of government because i mean elections are just around the corner and it's still an open question how long that government will stay in power well i mean let me take you back to february the twenty for us to write so the agreement was signed between the various groups and the foreign ministers of germany other european countries and of course mr lew kean was in the room although i know he didn't sign it then something happened right you had a covert you left nobody's quite clear exactly how or why that happened but that was not something that was instigated by any western country so then you're done then you have to deal with the reality that mr you have a covert has disappeared nobody knew where he was for a couple of days then of course he went to russia and you have people in kiev who

say well we're going to be the interim government i mean otherwise it would have been a complete breakdown of all governmental structures all all or in order so you know the u.s. and the european countries are now dealing with this interim government which of course wasn't elected by anyone but there's an otherwise there'd be a total how a vacuum because misty on a coverage just disappeared well enough to stand what's in paris may i have nothing to do with this with disappearing but they may have something to do with him balding to protesters to the degree that they resorted to the use of force because we know that some of the elements within the protest moment. were aren't they used force to occupy government buildings mr unocal which in his latest press conference claimed that he was shot at by protesters that he's convoy was attacked saying. share some of the responsibility of what they can is that we saw on the

streets of ukraine by emboldening protesters encouraging them to the anti well but you know the shootings first of all a lot of the shootings were also by trained snow. those who were clearly not protesters but they were you know from some different government structures i mean those units have now been disbanded the west had nothing to do with arming anyone in the my. and so you know it doesn't bear responsibility for the violence there is obviously a lot of different stories but clearly there was violence on both sides but of the eighty people who died most of them were the victims of government related forces who were trained snipers who were shooting them so again i think you know one has to accept that there's an enormous amount there was an enormous amount of chaos there but the west wasn't involved in any violence well the west again certainly wasn't involved and any violence but it sided with the protesters from the very

beginning and that again. may have created an impression that everything everything goes essentially now turning our attention to russia's actions of each part of a lot of controversy not only in the west but also in russia this threat of using force to restore constitutional order in ukraine now i'm sure you know that russia has a lot of aqua t.v. in ukraine a lot and stake in ukraine and i'm talking about. the russian base there the possibility of ukraine joining nato and not to mention you know extensive economic cultural historic ties between the two countries now given how much of that was threatened by these armed seizure of power and by the emergence of this government the government that is clearly on two russian is it's really surprising that russia reacted in the way a deed did have any other options of protecting its inches there well i think we

have to be very careful so i agree with you that this interim government immediately trying to pass legislation degrading the russian language and its use in ukraine that was clearly a mistake and they shouldn't have done it and i guess that lore is now no longer operate if i mean. i understand obviously russia does have very important equities it has the black sea bass and of course it has a lease now until twenty forty two it's not clear to me that they i am not aware of any threats that were made in kiev that somehow they would revise the issue of the basing of the black sea fleet there no one raised that so the question is did brush are in order to protect its equities there didn't need to have such a strong showing of force i think that's the issue no no one is questioning that russia has the right to protect what it has in crimea but it's how it did it just and what was russia's other option because in the beginning of this crisis russia

clearly pursued a diplomatic route it was. you know part of the any gauche ations that were taking place in key if it was calling for a diplomatic solution and you know you don't need to take my word for it even the some of the foreign diplomats for example the polish foreign minister to sluff sikorsky who is hardly buys towards russia sad that when the ousted president viktor yushchenko was negotiating a deal with the opposition that he reportedly received a call for putin encouraging him to make concessions so could it be also the case that after trying to place to play nice and civil and abide by the rules most will simply realize that the strategy was not only name if it was foolish because it essentially left to russia. you know potentially endangering all its interests there because the more concessions were made the more opposition the ante but there was no threat to the black sea fleet or true crime scene from this very weak and

fragile interim government i mean it it only being in power if that's the way right way to describe it for a few days so it there's nothing that precipitated the need for this huge show of force the issue. is. what appears to be to many people at least in the west let's say a disproportionate use of force and the de facto occupation of crimea dr sent you just mentioned that there were absolutely nothing that would. let us think that these governments would threaten in any way russia's long term security interest but then you also mention that the first issue that this government this interim government preoccupied itself with was the future of the russian language in ukraine and that's at a time when half of the countries in care so that's the sort of shows you the trajectory that government was prepared to take but the question i would like to

pose to you obviously is that measure was very controversial i mean it is still hotly debated within russia the the idea of russian troops being in ukraine for whatever reason is highly painful for many russian people but. living the moral aspect of that aside isn't that also true that direct proved highly effective as well because you know after weeks and months of trying to negotiate with the opposition and trying to. persuade the opposition and the west to come to some sort of compromise here russia has everything they ever wanted them and the other day five former american ambassadors to ukraine had an open letter published and they leased pretty much everything russia has requested so we may not like this military option but it seems to be that is it is highly effective i agree with you that obviously by using the military option russia has getting what it wanted it's de

facto you know crimea will be a part of russia or even if it's not technically proud of the russian federation it's certainly not going to have the same relationship to the ukrainian state you know if fresh had wondered before to have that ukraine join the eurasian union. that i can see that happening or at least for a very long time and clearly with all of the moves that have been announced by the united states and also by the european union it has cost russia something politically and it certainly cost russia something economically i would say there are costs for russia they may well be outweighed from the kremlin's point if you buy the gains but this is not without costs as well well i totally agree with you the only. thing that i would add is that made it clear that he's not interested in and next thing crimea and i think it would be an extremely difficult undertaking for him to do a given the current circumstances but let's take

a short break now when we come back is the ukrainian stand of a turning point in the u.s. russian relationship or rather the point of no return that's coming up in a few moments on worlds apart. i was in the steam first. it puts everything in its. letting go of those identities for me is important. part of it is protecting it's somebody they would make a brother to the dent if they really knew your story. they'd kill you. there's me before crazy how.

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a ditch and i was thrown. she was like a broken dome it wasn't a single piece left i thought if i lived and had a chance to start my life from scratch with it i would start making goals to help children. go right after he was born the baby was all in casts. his legs are getting bigger and the earth get too small so we have to order new ones to his raise money for us. to get a leg braces five years after my potentially fatal injuries in a car crash i gave birth to my little missy i think she's my reward for helping all those children who are selling the dollars to buy lunch with the children. welcome back to worlds apart the rear discussing the standoff between russia and the west over ukraine with anja less than the director of the center for eurasian

russian and east european studies at georgetown university dr stand this week marks . the fifth anniversary of these famous reset and in your book you make a point that every new american administration attempted to improve bilateral ties but i think this elite here in moscow is that what americans really mean by improving ties is essentially having a more compliant less independent and less asserts of russia is there any merit to that well i know that's definitely how many russians see that and we've obviously heard got from president putin a number of times i don't believe that that was the intention in the beginning am i would say that the reset of president obama. was a somewhat more realistic reset and it certainly did achieve quite a lot in president obama's first term and we can mention. the new start nuclear arms control agreement cooperation with russia on more sanctions on iran we can

mention a cooperation now in afghanistan looking towards the withdrawal of forces there russia joining the w t o so there were achievements there but i think the relationship became more complicated when mr putin announced his intention to return to the kremlin because that reset was very much built on a personal relationship between president obama and president medvedev well you mentioned some of the strategic achievements of the fourth reset a lot by president obama president that if partially president putin and all those issues they're dealing with should teaching. goals with global security i wonder if all of that was worth putting on hold reach is most likely going to happen within the next few months pumped probably years for the sake of endorsing a pro western government in one european country well i would say that the relationship between the us and russia had really deteriorated even before these

ukrainian events and i think from the u.s. point of right view the major event was the granting of political asylum to the n.s.a. leaker edward snowden this was something that the white house argued very strenuously against president putin made the choice i understand why he did from his point of view i'm sure was quite a rational choice and so the relationship had been on a downward trajectory anyway but let me just say that despite all of that the u.s. and russia continue and will continue to work together on these global issues where they both have an interest and where russia is in a very important parent but just out of curiosity i mean the you are renowned that could damage your work in the state department for a pretty long time and i know that the relationship this partnership between russia and the united states has always been pretty challenging in. it was always limited but the one american decision makers are considering options considering what

positions they should take in any given country surely they take into account the sensibilities of their partners and when he deal with ukraine i'm sure they knew well in advance how sensitive that would be for russia and completely discounting russia's interest completely discounting russia's fears and in seeing some of those far right organizations seeing some of those. radical protesters. taking part in those demonstrations endorsing the unconstitutional change of government all of that from the russian point of view it's simply very difficult to understand why would. endorsing. this government be outweigh in much more and much more important strategic issues that you mentioned deed what we see in ukraine. as a result of all of this is crimea in a similar status to say transnistria or across the and south ossetia in other words

a region of a country where it functions as a quayside state itself and isn't under the control of the central government and that really then makes the sort of post cold war order that more fragile and so i think that's partly has played into this now you could go back and say maybe it shouldn't have been cast as the european union versus the eurasian union but that's how it came to be cussed and so i think the question is are we now seeing the breakdown of what we thought had been achieved in europe after the end of the cold war the dissent you just mentioned the issue of i'm not saying or for tyshan ing annexing crimea or partitioning ukraine given giving our crimea some special status and in your own book you describe russia as a status quo paul. and russia was pretty content with the way things were going in ukraine whether there was progress in government of victory or you and yulia

tymoshenko whether there was. the government or you know college though i would describe it as pro russian because i think victor unocal which was really trying to play both sides of the aisle but russia was pretty content to the status quo and what russia was really defending is the status quo whereas in fact it is the united states we decided to reversion in a way what was happening in ukraine and with again endorsing these unconstitutional change of government all that i think would have to get into a discussion about what the status quo is i mean i think think from the russian point of view the status quo of want wants to defend is a ukraine that that doesn't well a that doesn't choose to go with the your european union and be hopefully from the russian point if you were during the eurasian union or at least if not that remain strictly neutral in the sense of not being in either of those economic bodies and i

think both sides now you know understand that the status quo that we had in ukraine prior to the twenty first doesn't exist anymore now. you secretary of state john kerry warned that there will be costs for russia's military presence in ukraine a you also alluded to costs indifference part of the program and what's interesting is that logic here putin as well said today that if indeed there will be costs that they will affect not only russia but also the united states how far do you think both administrations build their bomb administration and the put in and mr asian are willing to go in punishing each other well i think there's a limit to how much they can publish each other first of all in the u.s. russian case we don't have much of an economic relationship we're not like the europeans and therefore you know now i think the admin our administration is talking about freezing the potential trade and invest. treaty which we might have said. during the g eight summit and that talking about you know not pushing ahead

with some business deals we were supposed to have a delegation of russian officials including the energy minister in washington this week talking about energy deals so you know you can suspend those but that doesn't i don't think that imposes a huge cost and russia because as i say we don't have that much of a of an economic relationship so i think that the u.s. has limited leverage speaking about the cost it's clear that a move like that certainly has reputational costs for putin personally and for russia as a country and you know invoking the use of force may be fine for the united states it doesn't pretty regularly but i think it's it is an extraordinary thing for russia both domestically and internationally and i think it had. you know the decision to even threaten the use of force was extremely difficult for the russian president and to that effect i want to play something that he said just before this recent crisis broke out let's listen lympics are very important yours is i believe

and i would like to be so open the door not only to russia. but the hearts of our people. can see there is nothing to fear he said that just. days before the events and kermie immediately after the olympics and. i wonder how do you reconcile the two his desire to show russia as a more and welcoming nation on one hand and on the other hand giving orders that will clearly give plenty of all munition to russia russia haters in the united states and in the west well i ask myself the same question and so do many of my colleagues here because in fact the sochi olympics were very successful i know that there was excessive criticism before the games began in the west about a whole range of things but you know the evaluation of the olympics. the end was really pretty positive including in really all of our media here the athletes had

a very good experience so then the question is why just so shortly after showing that russia could host a very successful olympic games why then we had this military incursion and what i mean one can only say that presumably it was more important to do this militarily and to show you know the strong fist than it was to continue this you know showing the face of russia that everyone responds responded very positively to so and in some sense a lot of the goodwill that was built up in sochi is now dissipated because of what's happened in crimea well let's not overestimate the amount of goodwill that was created by the olympics in the west that thing. looking at the coverage in the western media it was pretty meager but what i want to add is that the the fact of incursion is still highly disputed by russia russia does. does not recognize western allegations of the incursion of its troops into the ukrainian territory but

. coming back to the sound bite that we just played given how much. was personally invested into the olympics and how strongly he feels about. showing the new face of fresh doesn't it to me to suggest that he was cornered that they added the west and sensually left him with no other option isn't that ultimately at the core of the question of why these resets never work that russia is always sort of pushed into the corner and you know. its interests are always betrayed or neglected when the united states or the west in general sees something of benefit for itself and i understand that that is how many russians see the problem with the resets that russia's interests are betrayed and so i think the but i think the conclusion one draws from this is. again the u.s. and russia have very different views of what drives the world and really how to

evaluate the nature of the relationship now i think you can certainly criticize the united states and i do in my book for not spending enough time and effort to understand the russian perspective and understanding that after the collapse of the soviet union this was a very difficult period russia is a great peril and it and it has been defining its new role in the world and there should have been more you know understanding of that but having said that there you know there's obviously clearly a very different view of when it's legitimate for instance to use military force in the situation as we have it now and where and also sent let me just we ran out of time but let me just say that no military force was you used as a few had and you know speaking of democracy i think there is no other party whose interest would be served better than russia by democracy being exercised because of that you know having the the east and the south of ukraine vote in the elections would guarantee a russian engine is the bass but unfortunately we have to leave it here thank you

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breaking news here in our to international the crimean parliament you know honestly votes for the region to become part of russia the move will be put to a popular ballot in ten days' time meanwhile. before you and i first they were going to reach the somebody. at least phone call between top european officials revealed the snipers firing at the crowds and police in kiev were allegedly hired by the opposition turned leadership. would be inciting bullets just like this while you. and r t crew recalls how it was caught up in the sniper fire as a team filmed in a hotel in downtown kenya. meanwhile revelations of the former opposition ordering the mine down shootings failed to make it to the mainstream have lines for hours it

went unnoticed. as major media outlets step up the rhetoric against russia we'll look out the underreporting of key information on the violence in ukraine. welcome to r.t. international will begin with our regular news story and the crimean parliament has voted to join russia the final decision will be made in a referendum in ten days' time we can now go live to renegotiate for more on this. so you know crimea is on the verge of a momentous decision what more do we know at this point we know that that decision has the decision to hold the referendum for fourteen days earlier than it initially was supposed to to have taken place was voted for unanimously by members of the

original parliament of crimea and this was the reasoning behind it. today we have taken a historic decision the referendum is in two questions which are driven by popular will people do not believe in the legitimacy of the new government in kiev there receive information from all parts of ukraine about the situation deteriorates and and people hiding in their houses now the question is whether russia is ready to accept us if the russian authorities decide to start the procedures to let us join the country people can then vote and have their say. so. now the regional regional parliament of crimea has sent to us issue of requests one to the russian president vladimir putin and nother to the opportunity of the russian parliament asking them to provide them with the opportunity to join russia and we have heard from some members of the russian state duma which is the parliament

particularly from the member of one of the parties who are in the parliament who said that that bill on the price ability of entering russian federation will be looked at nixon marina and you know we've just learned washington is implementing sanctions against russia so what do you know about that well they have been talking about implementing sanctions against russia for about a week now and now apparently there is talk of of not issuing visas to those russian officials who will be found privately and of course in the words of washington that is guilty. of somehow contributing to crimea joining russia and thereby of course disbanding the ukrainian unity according to the statements that we have heard from washington now exactly who those people could be we do not yet know neither do we know about the exact where and breadth of the sanctions at the moment but we do know that these seem to be the plants of the united states.

already thank you so much for bringing us the subways here in the straight for us in grain now in ten days locals will have to choose between two options and wine is to stay part of ukraine and the other is to become part of russia. well that would definitely be a man's decision which could see ukraine losing a region of strategic importance and for more on this i'm now joined in the studio by a foreign affairs expert marks the boat mark thanks so much of for joining us here and here to discuss the situation in crimea will we hear some analysis from you every day now the decision by the crimea of course. and the region's parliament has already voiced its full support of russia why do you think that is i mean is that a bit premature. the parliament has given its unanimous consent at this point and i think that this is because they feel under extreme pressure from an

antagonistic putsch in kiev that has already taken a host of steps. and signaled intentions to limit their rights their linguistic rights their political rights and so on but also that we have seen infiltration of ultra nationalist militants being sent from kiev in the western ukraine which the crimean people feel are a great threat to their security and safety. quite well we're also hearing mark about sanctions that you know the western is mind be slapping on russians in crimea is over what it calls a threat to integrity so who is being targeted here well the we don't know the exact details of the sanctions so far what we have from the statement is that. these people who threaten the ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty this is a bit of

a suspicious endeavor of course because the united states with its flooding of funds intended to help bolster a coup in the ukraine and the parade of united states and european union officials was the first violation of ukraine's sovereignty. we can expect that these will be figures in the russian duma within the administration of president putin as well as crimean officials within the crimean rada and within the administration of the crimea as prime minister acciona now if crimea has a vote in favor of joining russia what sort of reaction can we expect from kiev and elsewhere well kiev has. already announced that it considers the he puts regime in kiev considers the government of the prime minister in the crimea to be

illegitimate i think this is a little bit of casting stones because i think it's clear to everyone involved that the government in the crimea at this point has far more public legitimacy at the very least then the porch that has seized control in kiev they have made it clear that they will not accept the results of the referendum that they will not accept crimea being allowed to join russia that they do not accept the government in the crimea at all and basically they don't accept the people of the crimea are marks about international affairs expert thank you so much for joining us here in international and giving us your view on the situation in ukraine and crimea for having me meanwhile ukraine struggling to find a path from the turmoil mourning the dozens who were killed in the bloodshed which rocked the streets of kiev several weeks ago how. these images right here that you can see have sent shock waves across the world over eighty people were killed in the country's worst violence in years and it's now been revealed the snipers who

were shooting the crowd and the police were allegedly in the pay of the former opposition that's according to a leaked phone call between foreign policy chief and stony and foreign minister well here's our oliver with the details of the leak. we heard from the estonian foreign minister he confirmed that yes his voice is all not recording now what he has said is that the message in that phone call is being misconstrued by the media he said that he didn't make any claims that any opposition leaders as they were at the time were behind the shootings but we can have a little listen again now to exactly what he did say miss not much room for misconception so that carries i was stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not going to call which was somebody from the new coalition now the the alleged use of snipers by in a coup of just forces and the but could riot police who were just near behind me on

independence square that was one of the the main causes of outrage around the world over eighty people were killed just behind me on independence square among them twenty six police officers if it does turn out that these claims are correct it could have potentially repercussions. well there's also more evidence suggesting those who are leading the protests in kiev could be behind the shooting now these are pictures that right now you're looking at showing us not there is rifle being discovered in a car leaving my down at the time of the protests the man searching it is parliament members here. who actually drove away in their car despite a demonstrators trying to stop him is now they have the interim president's administration and as for the recent staggering leak many believe it should help reveal the true face of those now in power in kenya. i sincerely hope those bills awareness amongst the people as commentators said is you it was mentioned

they you knew about this they know they sat on this information for a few days until it was leaked and what actually does this but it really does not surprise me one bit one of the most powerful and universal masses the spending i his visual propaganda and this is used in politics more than people so what. would. convince you know actually the population is that you're here is that americans that ukraine needs to be saved from a democratically elected president. party responders were caught up in the sniper fire in kiev while covering the clashes bullet shattered the windows of a hotel room where our crew was staying and working as they try to film the escalating street violence when the government collapsed berkut special forces that have been tasked with ensuring order or disbanded by the new self-appointed

authorities and many of the officers took refuge in crimea and that's where your post kind of caught up with one of their commanders and this is absolutely we clearly understood that this was no longer like the peaceful protests of two thousand and four and two thousand and seven this time it was all about provocation not only violent butt. dirty tactics by the riders while we were on we didn't even have non-lethal weapons but the plan of those who masterminded this was to make the bird could force crumble to be moralized and pressure us to switch sides but that didn't happen and then came the worst the shooting rounds were fired at both sides but as i've already told you that we didn't have any weapons so it was so difficult to understand what was happening but officers just began falling to the ground one by one to what became clear people were dying from bullets but again no shots could have been fired by barrett could foresee i'm sure there was some outside force

a third party involved in the provocations and the deaths on both sides it was an organized team of professionals it's just. who was reporting from the front line of the violence and summed up the details of the tragic events and he remembers the warnings from the riot police when he was reporting on the streets of kiev saying someone from the side of the protestors were firing shots and you can follow alexy on facebook and twitter to learn more. and. tensions are running high within ukraine and internationally with manning media outlets adding fuel to fuel to the fire aggression has become a popular term used to describe russia's actions and is our teams going to count has been finding out those strong words lack the backing of verified information.

aggression is the word that you often hear in the u.s. media and from u.s. officials with regard to russia's presidency and ukraine what they fail to show is the aggression. it's very difficult to talk about aggression when you show thousands of people cheering for russia in different parts of ukraine right maybe that's why you don't see this kind of footage on us t.v. very often but if you do see this coverage in which russia's military presence there in itself is presented as an intervention what the end curs and pundits often fail to mention is that you have an agreement under which russia has a lot to deploy twenty five thousand troops in ukraine it now has presumably sixteen thousand or so so you get a kick picture where the u.s. presents anything that goes against the interests of those who took power in kiev as an aggression and the revolution there as this peaceful takeover of power. these

brave ukrainians took to the streets in order to peacefully against your ready. to demand the barkers. so instead they were met with strangers pick them off one after the other one wonders if the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them qualifies as standing peacefully according to secretary kerry a huge part of ukraine had no say in the power grab but my don secretary kerry apparently present it as a triumph of democracy. we've heard no comments from him on the leaks conversation between the e.u. foreign affairs chief catherine ashton and historian foreign minister where they talk about evidence that my down leaders not unocal which gave orders to snipers and the media on something like this i mean you would expect breaking news everywhere we're talking about evidence that those who are now celebrating victory in kiev may have well ordered snipers to shoot both peaceful protesters and the police but no none of that for hours it went unnoticed because it doesn't fit into

the narrative as it but what the u.s. media was quick to pick up on were unverified reports like this one. robert serry has agreed to give up his mission here in ukraine he is of cool as the u.n. special envoy to ukraine he's from the netherlands a father of three and he was taken against his will a short time ago by militia so after a great deal of hysteria the u.n. confirmed that the envoy was not kidnapped but he did come across a group of protesters and the envoy who was apparently escorted by police at the time decided to leave to avoid further tension the general picture that you get is that of the u.s. mainstream media jumping on anything very fighter on verify to present russia as an aggressor without much or any knowledge of what's happening on the ground and u.s. officials wealth they continue their self-righteous tirade while being gauging

actual acts of aggression around the world with innocent people dying every day in drone strikes are from violence in countries that were destabilized by the u.s. in washington i'm going to check on our team. and we spoke to former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul who says washington doesn't practice what it preaches for us to lecture anybody about violating sovereignty what about the sovereignty of iraq and afghanistan and yemen and north africa and we're constantly being involved pakistan and the use of drone missiles we have eight hundred bases around the world where one hundred thirty countries where always involved it seems in somebody else's alexion and we preach democracy we finally got democracy theoretically you know in egypt there was an election and of course we didn't like the person they elected so we said let's go back to the military so i

don't i don't like hypocrisy for us to preach one thing at the same time behind the scenes we're doing things to stir up trouble for many many different reasons. but there are many pieces of the ukrainian possible that some leave out of sight r.t. dot com has five questions that the western interests choose not to answer so log on and take a look at of course stay with us here national after the break we talk about possible european sanctions against russia and whether moscow has to worry. on the road signs with the car skidded at breakneck speeds fell into a ditch and i was thrown. she was like a broken toe it wasn't a single piece left. if i lift and had a chance to start my life from scratch i would start making to help children. after

. all in casts. his legs are getting bigger and the ortho says get too small so we have to order new ones said lorna has raised money for us she helps us to get a leg braces five years after my potentially fatal injuries in a car crash i gave birth to my little miss. i think she's my reward for helping all those children who are selling the dollars to buy life for the children. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back to watching r t international the u.k.

government is accused of covering up the arrest and resignation of a close aide of the prime minister who is being investigated in a child pornography case part of the officials job was working on internet filters that would prevent children from accessing inappropriate content parties or smith brings us more. his name is patrick rock and he is in fact a veteran conservative party david cameron's deputy chief of staff he's been called cameron spics and he's had what one might call unparalleled access to access to power over a very long time over the last four decades right there in the heart of government the irony lies in the fact that he's also been closely involved in drawing up government policy on internet pornography filters and this is a man who was arrested arrested recently on suspicion of what everybody is calling an offense related to child abuse images so not just pornography but what appears

to be child pornography now his arrest happened on february the twelfth and he then resigned but this was all on the quiet downing street appears to have covered it up until it was confronted with it now over the last three weeks no one said anything about this but apart from the prime minister who apparently has known for three weeks he said he was very concerned that the matter should be handled correctly that he didn't want to brief preemptively on a criminal investigation against a member of his staff but his critics who are mainly labor members of parliament opposition say that this raises a number of questions for example what level of security did patrick rock have is there other stuff that we don't know about it's also emerged by the way that rock had previously been accused of sexual harassment which was dealt with by his boss at downing street to a political figure rather than a civil servant they could not very usual so again some sort of oddity going on there the prime minister is being accused of

a cover up and his labor critics say that this undermines the entire credibility and effectiveness of the government. and on line for you right now while they are parents called tire gun control on the streets children may be finding ways to buy guns via social networks facebook and instagram are now promising to crack down on users trying to sell guns to minors via social media war details just a click away are. also their doctors in the u.s. say they have cured a baby with hiv by starting treatment just hours after its birth for more on this medical breakthrough log onto our website. while israel is pushing for a more homes being built on the occupied palestinian territory locals say they're being bullied and forced out of their homes our middle east correspondent went to meet a family who's been desperately fighting to stay on their land. had judges home has

been passed down through the generations but now there's pressure on him to move television complaining he's on the wrong side of the wall israel is building to separate the palestinian autonomy from israel how it's all the israeli commander if you brought us an electronic fans behind the wall and they're done away with the game so whatever you will do we're not leaving our house and our land i first met on march two years ago then he told me he felt like he was living in a prison but he refused office to move i don't want money i want my. two years ago the tractors are busy plowing fields around his house but because it was on the israeli side of the border the plan was to surround his home with a five meter high electric fence and if he always wife and three children wanted to leave they would need to go through an underground tunnel monitored by security cameras that would connect them to the other side of the wall and palestine we came here expecting to find something different i thought we'd see security cameras

state of the art technology but instead what we found is much the same two years have passed and nothing. in the mediterranean the israelis the occupation country we work slowly the boys in are slowly because they do not want to interview for the world as well. as you can see when they finish building this tunnel they will close it with a gate the owner of the house will have a key but no one can come and visit them without permission from the army and it should be within specific hours of omar is now sick and i'm able to work he doesn't even have the strength to go through the tunnel with me in the backyard i can't explain to you how i feel even animals have rights that's how can a family with three children and women in a cage feel almost vows he will fight for his home until the end policy r.t. one larger village palestinian autonomy. we'll be closely following developments

coming out of crimea for you here and i see international in just a reminder now that local parliament there has moved the date of the referendum on the region's future to march sixteenth coming up next a special reports on the dangerous legacy of nuclear weapons tests in polynesia. u.s. army specialist albert tell you the third is accused of running a scam in which he helped an afghan trucking company steal huge amounts of fueled by cooking the army books and making it seem as though the fuel had been used when in reality it was diverted they accuse kelly how make it into a twenty five thousand gallons of fuel vanish into a bureaucratic black hole and four dollars a gallon that is a lot of cash obviously this is wrong but in comparison to the profiteering made off of the war it is a joke that this guy's even going to jail think about the trillions of dollars

spent on the post nine eleven wars of luxury tons of big companies have all got huge pieces of the burger pie on with their missiles lockheed martin with their jets and now a burton and blackwater and so on and so on ok when all these big companies milk the system with big contracts during the war why should the average grunt take part in alluding to what reason does this kelly guy have to not also try to make a buck off the war it seems like in the world there are people who are often punished not because they steal but because they still far too little while not wearing nice suits but that's just my opinion. on the roadside to car skidded at breakneck speeds and fell into a ditch and i was thrown out because she was like a broken toe it wasn't a single shoulder piece left. if i lift and had a chance to start my life from scratch i would start making those. help children it

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on this january of the moon under the magnificent dome of the senate the debate begins a debate which is not exactly popular maybe because it's about polynesia a country some eighteen thousand kilometers away with a different world yet this is a day that could go down in history nearly as you deny the environmental damage throughout the oceanic in particular in french polynesia is to deny a part of every polynesians identity depriving them of their land their environment is to deprive them of part of themselves the guy who this stone comes from or. sits

and this is exactly what all of this is about this afternoon nothing else this is more. to it is all that's visualized the forty one flashes in the thermonuclear explosions in the middle of the sky should move above more money for magnificent said some of your predecessors minister. steward's visualize again the one hundred thirty one underground explosions and underwater blasts one hundred twenty three of which were and more atolls minister my dear colleagues if i offered you this stone would you feel safe placing it under the pillow of your loved ones every night or wouldn't you at least like to have a choice know that they're none of the parents and none of their children had this

choice. after the first nuclear tests in nine hundred sixty in the midst of the algerian uprising france needed to find new frontiers as empty and as barren as the algerian desert. three years later from society to continue its atomic saga in polynesia. for the principles and conditions the circumstances that have led us here good have determined that we need to equip ourselves with a tomic force. and we stand by the decision which we have come to schools to reach to build and if required to use our own atomic force. that same year a member of the territorial council on his way to paris was summoned to the lose a palace to testify. general de gaulle spoke very little of polynesia and he didn't

tell me about the two a toltz. enough he underlined the need to get to work it was urgent we had to act quickly. recently for him the experiments had to take place and go well. for this they needed vast open spaces remote and sparsely inhabited french polynesia was just that a large area bigger than europe the need didn't know was that two years earlier in one nine hundred sixty one topographic surveys had already been carried out. at one point you might have seen that i was embarrassed that i was questioning myself and i didn't even have time to talk see he told me that if it didn't go well you know there could have been a fair because he would declare that french polynesia would become a military territory they're. just

a big good i knew that fred the state would take it by force i knew where end it would come to that it was too important for friends and for to go from people who go on february the six nine hundred sixty four the territorial assembly of polynesia buckled under pressure and approved the general's decision as a result to little known atolls and for tougher were taken over by the state and became defacto military zones and there were no grounds upon which to claim ownership of those assholes your car owners were still there so there's a lot at least have some courtesy that's a polite thing to do is ask their own is if you can move in if not ok will have a discussion around a table but here nothing they moved in by force or force out with no regard for us whatsoever. the reason given by the government was the launch of the crucial pacific experimentation center project. because c.p.u.

started being built things moving and temperature me we were heading towards profit. when profit. to goal wanted a credible nuclear deterrent it was a priority and nobody questioned the costs involved a few months later. a true show of france's military power. everyone was overjoyed to get within a few years the traditional culture would have completely disappeared but. soon hundreds of workers were hired and rushed in from all over polynesia. a camp was built to helles up to four thousand people four hundred fifty kilometers to the

north the i told of how they came a logistical hub of the experimentation center. forty five years later the daily hustle and bustle is nothing but a distant memory only rundown remains like this problems bear witness to its former glory. the buzzing operation that once employed two thousand five hundred people has become nothing more than a ghost town. one hundred ninety three blasts took place over the thirty years of the poland he and nuclear project throughout this time the official position has always remained the same everything is under control and the tests are safe.

we were always very poorly informed about these things we recognised what happened here. nagasaki and we knew what had happened during different american english experiments but we didn't realize what it represented and what it would represent for us it is true that at the time scientists really had no way of knowing for sure and were guided by little more than. especially when it came to such an important factor as wind direction which determined whether they would proceed with the test . in the nine hundred sixty s. we didn't have numerical models of weather predictions so we used radio signals at about fifteen sites here the radio signals detected a balloon and by the location of the balloon and we could see the wind altitudes and then we mapped out these fifteen points and once we knew the different altitude levels of the wind the weather forecasters could use the maps to figure out the distribution of different winds in the area that.

understand the spread of particles that were possibly contaminated with the c p had developed a forecasting model but these models were relatively simple more than they predicted a certain subject sharee so we had a lot of faith in this trajectory that we now know that the atmosphere was far more chaotic and the margin for error was much bigger than we believed so we must take into account these uncertainties that can after a few hours in fact reach several hundred kilometers. based on evidence from the first experiment on july the second one nine hundred sixty six the mushroom cloud didn't follow the predicted trajectory at all it quickly reached the gumby archipelago and a few hours later the learned of man go along with it six hundred inhabitants today we would call this collateral damage it would be forty years before we found out

the truth buried in a document classified as top secret of the time. mangere riva reads a level ten by. hour and half an hour and asked for information face to face from the local authorities. it might be necessary to reduce the real figures so as not to lose the trust of the people who realized that something had been hidden from them after the first blast. to general de gaulle know the truth but was it hidden from him as well whatever the case this is what he had to say a few weeks later in t.t. . as you know all of the arrangements that have been made no disadvantage whatsoever also the dear people call an easy. it wasn't until the publication of an official document in two thousand and six that the full extent of the nuclear fallout in french polynesia was revealed. the

ministry of defense recorded more than one hundred eighty incidents of nuclear fallout during atmospheric testing from nine hundred sixty six to nine hundred seventy four however this was absolutely useless how did they come to this figure what data was it based on what scientific criteria we used reports from a nine hundred seventy four blast in tahiti located in one thousand two hundred kilometers from showed that only a part of the island was affected. however thirty eight years later in feb twenty twelfth the entire island is considered to have been affected by the radioactive cloud that didn't follow the predicted trajectory. no less serious attitude has been to take us for idiots and then make those that are an idiot seem like idiots we were told long ago that the french nuclear trials were clean said they'd never had any problems will all

the russians were funny guys the americans were funny the british were they kept saying these things they thought that we were a bit dead waited. i don't know if it is it but we've studied we know how to read fall and we inform ourselves of what happens around the world the schools we distrust the talk of a colonial power mean and still hasn't decided whether to discredit us or to just be totally complacent towards us. while some in ukraine want to join the e.u. a recent poll shows that fifty two percent of french workers want to leave the euro and then only thirty four percent of them think he is a good thing only one of these two groups is right either being an e.u. member is horrible or it's a good thing the fact that we don't know is a market failure so it could lead free participants in the e.u.

market give us a price saying all that we don't know the value of membership. this comes from the heart you know i've never even seen him in person for me this is the image of a hero the world's first coast everyone knows his name but few people ever. was yuri gagarin's iconic first spaceflights the product of good fortune or destiny. to me fail to learn structurally he could see the ground they started throwing punches at it. was a turning point. go to.

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in an attempt to make amends the government took steps to raise all traces of the nuclear testing on the island of mantle reva their nuclear shelter which in reality was nothing more than the would be where else covered in metal was demolished a few years ago nevertheless twenty three cases of contamination have been recognized officially. headed for how full so known as the island of the harbor it's the third largest atoll in polynesia which was chosen as the advanced support base from the road four hundred fifty kilometers away. the

base was dismantled in two thousand and since then the inhabitants have resumed a quiet and peaceful life. but the army returned in two thousand and nine for a large scale cleanup operation that will take seven years and sixteen million euros to complete. it's not going to be an easy task to restore the nature to its pristine condition. in an attempt to distance itself from its reputation the army is trying to be open about the ambitious operation. we're entering into an area where things have been buried underground you know we can see that the first phase of research has been carried out on meaning the company or has already dug up soil to take test samples. so effectively by doing this first stage of research we can see the scraps of metal poking out of. france must turn this page

in its history we finished the nuclear tests we want to turn the page we want everything to be clean and tidy said. we can get back and move on. that's all it comes down to if we carried out trials we learnt a lot from it not just about the nuclear bomb but also concerning the world of health up until that time we used methods of a bygone era there's no shame in saying that at the time we worked in a certain way today the constraints are a lot more sensitive so we're required to pay attention to the environment we're adapting and it's only out of this necessity to adepts that we're doing this work properly. and how you've got to remember that there was nuclear activity. it was the advanced support base for more at the time of the aerial trials so radioactive materials were handled their russian air revolt sure planes stationed there it circulated the radioactive clouds to gather samples and

everything was analyzed in how the boats that were contaminated in mara and frank were brought to how frank decontamination there was to see a lab which analyzed all radioactive substances so it was an attack or a lot of radioactivity was handle it. especially those that were heavily contaminated and were brought here by military jets during the eighty years of atmospheric testing vultures came to this particular area where we had four stations where they could be decontaminated off it was a simple method wearing full protective clothing cleaner sprayed the aircraft with an emulsion so that all of the radioactive particles that they collected fell to the floor. these were then collected and brought back in a settling tank and the rest of the emulsion which was then free from radioactivity

was rolled by a worker into the ocean just behind us. of course. all this was done under tight controls. and there were samples taken regularly to ensure that everything going into the ocean was calling in. but all these procedures sufficient to guarantee that the fish the staple diet of polynesia is safe for the inhabitants of how to consume this task requires an independent laboratory responsible for monitoring radioactivity in the whole of polynesia both in the year the food chain was. about. this is during the period of atmospheric testing we had these after effects that impacted directly on the entire southern hemisphere because then a soon as the test stopped they quickly descended on the polynesian islands and the battles around morrow and particular coral and most of the earth which contains

coral didn't retain any of the radioactivity so anything that was dumped on the ground was washed away mostly by rain into the sea today even in how you remember there were a lot of decontamination labs etc if you look for radioactivity in the earth you will find it was there at a given moment but it's since been washed away so these whereas in areas where the earth contains organic matter radioactivity is retained the. area in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine before the utah was put back in the hands of the territory there were precautionary measures in check. for example at the foot in this noticeable area. which allow analyses to be taken from the bottom to see the infiltration that there might be between the two concrete slabs. these core samples were sent back to the mainland and the results were collected. then

afterwards by compiling the results we were able to see the eggs. but where there was radioactive emission. and we would see that this emission was tiny less than you might find a lender now in britain. here we can effectively know everything about the area around the legionnaires fifty four and regiment camp i could see the green zone show that there's no pollution whereas the red zone show that pollution has been detected in the lead hydrocarbons in. different times different customs. it would seem that the army has now developed an environmental conscience. in this pilot project the restoration of one hundred eighty five is an opportunity to apply new technologies like using bacteria to digest the many chemical residues.

students seem unconcerned their teachers are weary and have countless questions on this it must be said we don't know what happened here with a ocean and the lake let's not forget what's been burdened the earth here. from what i have seen a lot of things have been removed. but there may be things that we haven't been told about. it's true that when we ask questions like what's been put in the lake in the ocean in the earth many people don't trust them sincerely to say i want. all see all come with administration is scared as we all are

i believe that there is waste in the lake yeah yeah did the shell of the it seems there are tankers. tracks normally you've got to take out you know when people hear that from harl. because they're from how. but. they think they're the fish from hell and. many people have the idea that things are being hidden from us so as soon as you mention the word nuclear there is an immediate suspicion of lies i think that today we're moving away from this way of thinking and people are able to understand us before needed to be explained a little more and the people were capable of getting their heads around it in the days of nuclear trials the word environment didn't exist for season lagoons were simply considered to be the most practical garbage dumps concrete scrap metal holes

of airplanes or trucks just thrown in without so much as a second thought to all the ways that was dumped in the lake was not radioactive waste that was maybe polluting like batteries or hydrocarbons which were still in vehicles for two more was immediately put in the lake so in two thousand and eight in fact there had already been a first sighting of such waste so every habitation project was immediately organized by the country and the community to get rid of all this waste and all the dangerous debris on the batteries would obviously be taken out without any doubt then material like bits of concrete and it would be done in open view of the country's watch to see that everything was taken out properly and got to be seen that life is resumed on top of the waste that the coral is regrown it mustn't badly affect the ecosystem or the environment especially if it's there's no risk involved in getting it out. reassuring speech from

a person tasked with p.r. . the kharkiv pass which is what we call. the hotel area an area in deep immersion particularly there are hundreds of tons of radioactive waste which were put there in the form of drums that went all the way down to the bottom. this is a designated area and another area there was some scrap metal which could be regularly seen slightly emerged in the ocean. these are two identified zones or. elsewhere we regularly see strong swirls where bits of metal emerge and wash up on shore like they have all this will be got rid of and we'll find areas where we can put it the radioactive waste in the hotels will stay there will be touched as it's not part of the rehabilitation project. and so they were buried in pits one thousand five hundred to two thousand meters deep. in total five hundred seventy

tons of contaminated waste including the famous airplanes thrown into the great blue sea. of more concern for the government was a report published in january twenty seventh but at the very least signals trouble ahead. the atomic energy commission to document included a computer simulation of the possible collapse of part of crown. hardly surprising considering that one hundred thirty seven blasts took place there . the principle of underground testing is simple the nuclear charges placed in a well dug in between six hundred and one thousand meters deep after the explosion the rock becomes fused which is supposed to keep the radioactivity contained. the power of the explosion caused

a mini earthquake which is clearly visible from the footage taken by controlled cameras. taking into account the twenty eight tests. it is the northeast i'm certain of the asshole that is in the greatest danger. if the mess estimated to be about six hundred seventy million cubic meters in some ways what a collapse it would cause a fifteen to twenty meter high wave followed by a tsunami. is around one hundred kilometers away travelling at six hundred kilometers per hour the wave would reach the toll in just ten minutes. to read so close to motorola so far from the haiti twelve hundred kilometers away.

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. breaking news here in our international the crimean parliament or down a mostly vote for their region to become part of russia the move will be put to a popular ballot in ten days' time meanwhile the u.s. slaps a visa restrictions on russian and crimean officials also. the hardest my birth. but the somebody from the new coalition leaked phone call between top european officials revealed the snipers firing at the crowd and police in kiev were allegedly hired by the opposition turned leadership. in the fighting bullets just like this one. and our teeth drew recalls how it was caught up in the sniper fire as a team filmed in a hotel in downtown. and revelations of the former opposition

ordering the mine down shootings failed to make it to the mainstream headlines. for our escape went unnoticed as major media outlets. the rhetoric against russia will look at the under reporting of key information on the violence in ukraine. which are due to national coming to you live from moscow will begin with breaking news now the u.s. is to impose a visa restrictions on russian and crimean officials over what it's calling a threat to grain sovereignty the move comes as the crimean parliament votes to join russia the final decision will be made in a referendum in ten days time or does or in english go has more. initially they were a friend that was supposed to take place on the thirtieth of march but that had that

date has been changed by two weeks we're hearing that there should be only two questions on the referendum ballot and that is whether or not residents want to join russia and the second question is whether or not they want to go back to the constitution of the one nine hundred ninety two which does leave crimea within ukraine but with a much broader autonomy that it enjoys now but the vote for the referendum was held almost unanimously by members of the. regional parliament and this was the reasoning behind it are people do not believe in the legitimacy of the new government in kiev they receive information from all parts of ukraine about the situation deteriorates in there and people hiding in their houses now the question is whether russia is ready to accept us if the russian authorities decide to start the procedures to let us join the country people can then vote and have their say now when it comes to russia's response well they have the russian both russian

president and the federation council which is the upper chamber of the russian parliament have received official petitions from the legislators in crimea when it came when it comes down to the russian parliament well they say they could be looking at the bill which could be looking at crimea as potential enter into the russian federation as early as next week almost immediately after news broke of the referendum which took place in crimea we have heard from the united states that they are going to be implementing sanctions against ukrainian and russian officials who they deal responsible for undermining ukrainian territorial integrity and that includes the subject matter of crimea however who exactly will fall under those sanctions and what exactly they will be implemented we do not know yet. so in ten days locals will have to choose between two options one is to stay part of ukraine and the other is to stay part of

a russia which is god their reaction from russia on the u.s. decision to impose sanctions against crimean and russian officials and individuals foreign minister lavrov said it's only aggravating the tension for more on this let's now talk to modern historian mark almond and he joins me live now from the u.k. think it's much more for joining us here on to international to discuss the situation in crimea well as we know the us have been mulling over the idea of sanctions for weeks now for quite some time and now they've introduced a visa sort of hot on the heels of the news of crimea referendum what do you make of the timing of these sanctions. well i think that. the basic problem that our state has been that has a great poet its interest is not in ukrainian democracy or interest in relations but in the crimea as a strategic priority as a great naval base of croker the black sea and so of course the fact that this crisis has in many ways the western states hope to promote in kiev has softened it

catapulted crimea into the crimean politicians on into raising the question of joining russia looks as though it's going to pluck that prize away from the west and leave the west with i'm afraid say the bits of the ukraine which have a movable really valuable mr t.v. point of view and so the americans i think are really lashing out in impotent fury and i think this is of course a potential of the other situation because someone has a referendum or who say they have a good solution to this problem let's consult the people if the referendum is proper conducted if the votes are almost recounted maybe everybody who says they're democrat from moscow to kiev to even the white house can except it now what if crimea votes to join russia are we likely to see more sanctions against moscow. i think that's likely to be the case because i don't think the west wants to accept a democratic verdict in this case the west says and democracy is where we get the

also that we want and i think most people including people very critical of the decision to have a lot of us expected to go heavily in favor of it to join russia the problem for the united states is it can impose symbolic sanctions if you like but because there's very little trade between these are states and russia it can't do much what it's actually trying to do is make the europeans particularly the germans the italians the austrians pay a big price to impose sanctions against russia because they would face huge costs as we've seen not just about energy but also big german companies see the share price fall because they do sort of business with the from kazakhstan and so on so the americans in a sense have a cost free rhetoric but for the europeans particularly for very important countries in europe even if they agreed with the american people and the price of marching along in step with the americans as. well you know the crimean parliament has already unanimously backed the option of joining

a russia but does that mean that this is the most likely outcome then when the referendum is held. you know we could say that two weeks is a ten days is a long time in politics all sorts of things might happen but i think as i say even hostile observers generally said that a clear majority of people in crimea feel affinity for russia remember it's not just the russians ethnic russians who feel threatened by the decisions in kiev in the immediate aftermath of the fall of you on a covert the tops also after all that minority rights that language rights were abolished the hunger in the west by the way also had the language rights a polish no carry and hague and so on the western leaders are trying to get the interim government in kiev to robot chromed these aggressive nationalistic policies that they proclaimed in their own parliament but of course it's frightened russians and tuttles and all the people who have had minority rights and remember in russia of course your viewers may not know because in russia russian is not by any means

the only official language there are hundreds of different languages with their own schools with their influences with their own media and so on so that if i was a tough one i might say on balance the russian system is more likely to promote my ethnic religious and linguistic identity role of the better than the ukrainian nationalists who seem to want to make everybody into ukrainian are mark almond modern story things so much for sharing your views with us here on r.t. international now meanwhile ukraine struggling to find a path from the turmoil mourning the dozens who were killed in the bloodshed which rocked the streets of kiev several weeks ago. these pictures that we're showing you right here of from kiev have sound shock waves across the world over eighty people were killed in the country's worst violence in years and it's now been revealed the snipers who were shooting at the crowd and the police were allegedly in the pay of the former opposition and that's according to a leaked phone call between the e.u.'s a foreign policy chief and

a stunning foreign minister here is our spear all over with the details of the leak . we've heard from the stoney and foreign minister he confirmed that yes his voice is or not recording now what he has said though is that the message in that phone call is being misconstrued by the media he said that he didn't make any claims that any opposition leaders as they were at the time were behind the shootings but we can have a little listen again now to exactly what he did say miss not much room for the misconception so that varies i was stronger and stronger understanding behind snipers it was not going to call reach somebody from the new coalition now the the alleged use of snipers by in a coup of his forces and the could riot police who were just near behind me on independence square that was one of the the main causes of outrage around the world over eighty people were killed just behind me on independence square among them

twenty six police officers if it does turn out that these claims are correct it could have potentially huge repercussions. well there's also more evidence suggesting those leading the protest in kiev could be behind the shooting and these are the pictures showing a sniper's rifle being discovered in a car leaving my dad the time of the protests and the man searching it is parliament member sergei bush who actually drove away and that car despite the demonstrators trying to stop him mr chen's cave is now they have interim president of ministration and asked for their recent staggeringly man to believe it should have revealed the true face of those now in power in kiev. i sincerely hope those bills awareness amongst the people as a commentator said it was mentioned that you knew about this they know they've sat on this information for a few days until it was leaked and what actually does this. really does not

surprise me one bit one of the most powerful and universal methods of spending i think is the regional propaganda and this is used in politics to more. people so what. would. convince you know actually the population of here is that americans that is ukraine needs to be saved from a democratically elected president. article respondents were caught up in the sniper fire and king of while covering the clashes bullet shattered the windows of a hotel room where our crew was staying and working as they try to film me escalating street violence when the government collapsed berkut special forces that had been tasked with ensuring order were disbanded by the new self-appointed authorities and many of the officers took refuge in crimea and that's where your piskun off caught up with one of the er commanders. at some point we clearly understood that this was no longer like the peaceful protests of two thousand and

four in two thousand and seven this time it was all about provocation not only violent but dirty tactics by the rioters while we were on our and we didn't even have non-lethal weapons the plan of those who masterminded this was to make the bird could force crumble to be moralized and pressure us to switch sides but that didn't happen and then came the worst the shooting rounds are fired at both sides but as i've already told you we didn't have any weapons it was so difficult to understand what was happening but officers just began falling to the ground one by one so what became clear people were dying from bullets but again no shots could have been fired by barrett could forces i'm sure there was some outside force a third party involved in the provocations and the deaths on both sides it was an organized team of professionals. who was reporting from the front line of the

violence and summed up the details of the tragic events and he remembers the warnings from the riot police when he was reporting on the streets of kiev saying someone from the side of the protesters were firing shots. on facebook and twitter to learn more. tensions are running high within ukraine and internationally with manning media outlets adding fuel to the fire aggression has become a popular term used to describe russia's actions as art has got edged to counter has been finding out those strong words lack the backing of verified information. aggression is the word that you often hear in the u.s. media and from u.s. officials with regard to russia's presence in ukraine what they fail to show is the

aggression. it's very difficult to talk about aggression when you show thousands of people cheering for russia in different parts of ukraine right maybe that's why you don't see this kind of footage on us t.v. very often but if you do see this coverage in which russia's military presence there in itself is presented as an intervention what the end curs and pundits often fail to mention is that russian have an agreement under which russia has a lot to deploy twenty five thousand troops in ukraine it now has presumably sixteen thousand or so so you get a kick picture where the u.s. presents anything that goes against the interests of those who took power in kiev as an aggression and the revolution there as this peaceful takeover of power. the brave ukrainians took to the streets in order to stand peacefully against tyranny. to demand the barkers. so instead they were met with strikers who picked them

off one after the other one wonders if the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them qualifies as standing peacefully according to secretary kerry a huge part of ukraine had no say in the power grab but my don secretary kerry apparently present it as a triumph of democracy. we've heard no comments from him on the leaks conversation between the e.u. foreign affairs chief catherine ashton and historian foreign minister where they talk about evidence that the leaders not unocal which gave orders to snipers and the media on something like this i mean you would expect breaking news everywhere we're talking about evidence that those who are now celebrating victory in kiev may have well ordered snipers to shoot both peaceful protesters and the police but no none of that for hours it went unnoticed because it doesn't fit into the narrative as it but what the u.s. media was quick to pick up on were unverified reports like this one. robert

serry has agreed to give up his mission here in ukraine he is of cool as the u.n. special envoy to ukraine he's from the netherlands a father of three and he was taken against his will a short time ago by militia so after a great deal of hysteria the u.n. confirmed that the envoy was not kidnapped but he did come across a group of protestors and the envoy who was apparently escorted by police at the time decided to leave to avoid further tension the general picture that you get is that of the u.s. mainstream media jumping on anything very fighter on verify to present russia as an aggressor without much or any knowledge of what's happening on the ground and u.s. officials wealth they continue their self-righteous tirade while being gauging actual acts of aggression around the world with innocent people dying every day in drone strikes or from violence in countries that were destabilized by the u.s.

in washington i'm going to check on our team. and we spoke to former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul is has washington doesn't practice what it preaches for us to lecture anybody about violating sovereignty what about the sovereignty of iraq and afghanistan and yemen and north africa and we're constantly being involved pakistan and the use of drone missiles we have eight hundred bases around the world where one hundred thirty countries were always involved it seems in somebody else's alexion and we preach democracy we finally got democracy theoretically you know in egypt there was an election and of course we didn't like the person they elected so we said let's go back to the military. i don't like hypocrisy and for us to preach one thing at the same time behind the scenes we're doing things to stir up trouble for many many different reasons. and there are many

pieces of the ukrainian puzzle that some leave out of side dot com has five questions that the western leaders choose not to answer so log on and take a long. look on the program fans but not leaving the fight for their home. even animals have rights how can a family with three children and even the key. coming up we'll be reporting on how one palestinian family standing its ground while israel. with its expansion program . in ukraine want to join the e.u. a recent poll shows a fifty two percent of french workers want to leave the euro and then only thirty four percent of them think he is a good thing only one of these two groups is right either being member is horrible

or it's a good thing the fact that we don't know is a market failure so we get a lead free participants in the market give us a price signal that we don't know the value of membership. we.

welcome back to what you are to international the u.k. government is accused of covering up the arrest and resignation of a close aide of the prime minister who's being investigated in a child pornography case part of the officials job was working on internet filters that will prevent children from accessing inappropriate content arches or smith brings us more. his name is patrick rock and he is in fact a veteran conservative party advisor david cameron's deputy chief of staff he's been called cameron spics and he's had what one might call unparalleled access to access to power over a very long time over the last four decades right there in the heart of government . in the fact that he's also been closely involved in drawing up government policy on internet pornography filters and this is a man who was rested arrested recently on suspicion of what everybody's calling an

offense related to child abuse images so not just pornography but what appears to be child pornography now his arrest happened on february the twelfth and he then resigned but this was all on the quiet downing street appears to have covered it up until it was confronted with it now over the last three weeks no one thing about this but apart from the prime minister who apparently has known for three weeks he said he was very concerned that the matter should be handled correctly that he didn't want to brief preemptively on a criminal investigation against a member of his staff but his critics who are mainly labor members of parliament opposition say that this raises a number of questions for example what level of security did patrick rock have is that other stuff that we don't know about it's also emerged by the way that rock had previously been accused of sexual harassment which was dealt with by his boss at downing street to a political figure rather than a civil servant they could not very usual so again some sort of oddity going on

there the prime minister is being accused of a cover up and his labor critics say that this undermines the entire credibility and effectiveness of the government. and i'm for you right now while their parents call tighter gun control in the streets children maybe finding ways to buy guns vice social networks. facebook and instagram are now promising to crack down on users trying to sell guns to minors via social media more details are just a click away on our t. dot com. and also there are doctors in the u.s. say they have cured a baby with hiv by starting treatment just hours after its birth for more on this medical breakthrough log onto our website. now while israel is pushing for more homes being built on the occupied palestinian territory local say they're being bullied and forced out of their homes are middle east correspondent went to meet a family who's been desperately fighting to stay on their land. omar had judges home has been cast down through the generations but now there's pressure on him to

move television complaining he's on the wrong side of the wall israel is building to separate the palestinian autonomy from israel and all the israeli commander if you brought us inside an electronic fence behind the wall and adonal with the gate so whatever you will do we're not leaving our house and our land i first met on march two years ago then he told me he felt like he was living in a prison but he refused office to move. two years ago the tractors were busy plowing fields around his house but because it was on the israeli side of the border the plan was to surround his home with a five meter high electric fence and he always wife and three children wanted to leave they would need to go through an underground tunnel monitored by security cameras that would connect them to the other side of the wall and palestine we can you know expecting to find something different i thought we'd see it security

cameras state of the art technology but instead what we found is much the same two years have passed and nothing has been the malice or a new the israelis the occupation country the work slowly the poison are slowly because they do not want to appear for the world as killers and. as you can see when they finish building this tunnel they will close it with a gate the owner of the house will have a key but no one can come and visit them without permission from the army and it should be within specific hours omar is now sick and i'm able to work he doesn't even have the strength to walk through the tunnel with me in the backyard i can't explain to you how i feel even animals have rights how can a family with three children and women in a cage feel almost vows he will fight for his home until the end policy r.t. the larger village palestinian autonomy. isn't brief right now police in greece

have fired tear gas and used pepper spray to disperse protesters angry a job cuts and severest charity measures clashed clashes broke out in central athens when a group of demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon during a visit by the german president greece has been depended on rescue loans from international lenders with germany being the largest contributor and bet a backer of the hysterically agenda. families and governments as a son of former leader moammar gadhafi has been extradited from the air maybe a once to try saadi gadhafi for stealing state funds and for armed intimidation he's now in custody in tripoli where he fled after his father was killed a jury in the two thousand and eleven revolution had previously refused to hand him over due to concerns he would face the death penalty. for the nato air strike in the log our province in eastern afghanistan has killed five local troops and wounded eight others the alliance says it will be looking into the circumstances

behind the incident saying the soldiers were killed accidentally during an operation tantrums are running high between the afghan government and allied forces who have been blamed for numerous civilian deaths since the invasion more than twelve years ago. but as well as president nicolas maduro has cut diplomatic ties with panama accusing the country's government of conspiring against him the decision comes amid large scale commemorations marking one year since the death of former leader of a child just last month when duro accused america of instigating mass anti-government protest in venezuela and expelled three u.s. diplomats. and coming up next e.u. membership privilege or burden as discussed on the kaiser report in just a few minutes here in our to international.

u.s. army specialist albert kelly the third is accused of running a scam in which he helped an afghan trucking company steal huge amounts of fuel by cooking the army books and making it seem as though the fuel had been used what a reality it was diverted they accuse kelly how to make it into a twenty five thousand gallons of fuel venice into a bureaucratic black hole and four dollars a gallon that is a lot of cash obviously this is wrong but in comparison to the profiteering made off of the war it is a joke that this guy's even going to jail think about the trillions of dollars spent on the post nine eleven wars of luxury tons of big companies have all gotten huge pieces of the burger pie like raytheon with their missiles lockheed martin with their jets and now a burden and blackwater and so on and so on hey when all these big companies milk the system with big contracts during the war why should the average group take part in alluding to what reason does this kelly guy have to not also try to make a buck off the war it seems like in the world there are people who are often

punished not because they steal but because they still far too little while not wearing nice suits but that's just my opinion. so we leave the. oceans secure. for the. issues that no one is asking with to get they deserve answers from. politic. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser while some in ukraine want to join the e.u.

a recent poll shows that fifty two percent of french workers want to leave the euro and that only thirty four percent of them think the is a good thing only one of these two groups is right either being member is horrible or it's a good thing the fact that we don't know is a market failure front so we could let free participants in the e.u. market give us a price signal that we don't know the value of membership seems logical stacy well a lot of it seems to come down to trade deals and brew as a trade deal that yanick which had backed out of in the ukraine which caused some people to come out in the streets and be upset well in the e.u. right now they're looking to secretly negotiate a trade deal with the united states called t. to the transatlantic trade him investment partnership deal well either you u.s. trade talks face growing hostility ministers warn free trade talks between the united states and the e.u. are in danger of being drilled by populist groups opposing everything from

globalization to multinationals this is how they describe this max they're calling them populist and the exact quote from the finnish minister is we are grappling with people who are anti european who are m.t.m. merican who are anti free trade who are anti-globalization and who are anti bolton national corporations that's finland's minister for european trade alexander stubb and this is what he told the ministers well the grand arc of history has gone through periods of globalisation and dick lobel ization prior to world war one was a period of high globalization and then you had world war one which is obviously a period of globalization a lot of bloodshed so here we are at the precipice once again i think clearly given the curve. over financialization of the global economy and the reliance on zero percent interest rates which cannot possibly go on into affinity we are looking at once again a period of de globalization which is inevitable given the kind of the arc of history so no policy makers can get the way of this is just the kind of the the

cycles that are tied to concentration of power when a few people have an inordinate concentration of power like they do now in europe and united states and around the world due to financial ization and globalization they invariably set up a period where it goes bust into something called dk lobel ization and i think that's the period right now well the other thing that's interesting about this is first of all this is. is it's done in secret so no citizens voters taxpayers of the e.u. are actually able to look at it the only reason why we know anything about it is some of it has been leaked by wiki leaks so people were able to see some of it. that this would also what we've seen is that it would create a new third layer of judiciary for only for the corporations and that they would have power over your nations so a lot of people are now fighting over national borders and sovereignty and issues like that where here it's removed for everybody there's no and there's no fighting

there's no fighting because it's a secret court somewhere that you don't know about there's nowhere to go and storm that building in that eventuality and the other thing is that here they are condemning the very people in their own taxpayers their own citizens who don't want the same deal that you know basically that yana coverts didn't sign here they're calling them anti-american and a european anti-globalization anti multinational corporation right now it's a train wreck of trade deals that are overlapping each other in ways that are completely counterproductive and counter-intuitive can't possibly last and so here you have a situation where the it's not free trade let's get that clear. it's not about free trade it's anti free trade they there's the supporters of are saying that the critics are anti free trade but that's just calling the kettle black they're just making that up as part of their propaganda to tip is anti free trade because it supports over concentration of wealth resources in the fewer and fewer and fewer

hands that's not free trade that's neil feudalism well that's exactly the point i was going to make at this finally here on the story because they say that these guys negotiating the secret pact are claiming that it will generate one hundred billion dollars in additional economic output a year on both sides of the atlantic but since the financial crisis. something like ninety seven percent of the gains have gone to the top one percent so what they're saying is it will create ninety seven billion more dollars for the oligarchs that run everything exactly it will create another ninety seven billion dollars of wealth for the oligarchs a very small percentage of folks that are putting these deals together they also don't mention that one hundred billion dollars worth more of trade and another six to seven hundred billion dollars more debt they never tell you the debt. like the u.k. for example is a historic debt levels that i'll mention that when they talk about these so-called

growth one of the ministers in the article actually says you know people are concerned about months santo in particular even though that's in the trade deal the secret trade deal that we saw about this copyright cartel and intellectual property rights they're saying we won't allow it however in the e.u. so why is it in the trade deal so you know they're already lying to you now speaking of being lied to there is anatol lieven who is an author a journalist and a policy analyst at the new american institute and he is over in the ukraine and this is what he said about one of the war worse things he's a citing blame everywhere essentially but he said the thing that the e.u. and the u.s. have done wrong is this in particular after years of demanding that successive ukrainian government's undertake painful reforms in order to draw nearer to the west the west is now in a paradoxical position if it wishes to save the new government from a russian backed counter-revolution it will have to forget about any reforms that will alienate ordinary people and instead give huge sums and aid with no strings

attached the e.u. has allowed the demonstrators in kiev to believe that their actions have brought ukraine closer to member ship but if anything this is now even further away than it was before the revolution so he's saying that they're going to have to give the ukraine's if they want to not make them angry and come protest against them basically money with no strings attached. unlike what greece and ireland and portugal and spain have had so again i'm saying that the e.u. has fined the stuff of this position of having to put together deals that are self-defeating and self repudiating in the face of a growing population that is unrest fall to put it in those terms civil unrest so they are compound ing the social cohesion risk as it's called or the revolt risk or the people in the street throwing rocks risk by putting out a series of deal memos and other documents into the public domain that are

completely out in a way that oh my god only a few people are getting rich and because of the internet because of the trends toward the globalization which is the internet's all about the globalization in many ways these people are now having to face the possibility of being hoisted by their own petard hard even more anti euro euro skeptic than the french are the greeks in fact i believe they're number one know they're number two only to the u.k. which is more euro skeptic so here's a headline from greece this week to see how they have fared under i.m.f. troika sort of restrictions on their freedom. home ownership in greece is sick joke as property market collapses since the outbreak of the greek debt crisis four years ago property values nationwide have dropped by around thirty two percent according to the bank of greece estate agents contracted by the guardian asked me that near fifty percent so not only have house prices decline the second most in all of

europe but now it's considered a sick joke to even own property that you might pass to your children the situation is so dire that homeownership nearly eighty seven percent the highest in the e.u. has become cause for black humor the joke now doing the rounds is if you want to punish your children you threaten to pass on property to them greeks traditionally have always regarded property as a secure investment but now it's become a huge millstone given that the tax burden has increased seven fold in the past two years alone this is an example of the globalization as well because let's look at in this context up until the year two thousand and eight the world was rising up on a rising tide of money driven by zero percent interest rates but now since two thousand at the time it's been going out in a de globalized way which means that the financialization has also been diesel orating so a country like greece this is where you're seeing the money being pulled out and the property values are collapsing as

a proof as an example of de globalization if greece were going to be part of the globalized world then that spigot of cash would not have been turned off to greece so this is happening in all these peripheral countries and it's happening within countries it's happening within ukraine it's happening within the euro zone it's happening within the united states if you're not on the wrong side of the apartheid wall the interest rate apartheid wall then you're being dig localise forcefully by having the money taken away from you so this is all happening the people who are least aware of this are the folks that are benefiting still from all the free money printing like john kerry who makes like a ludicrous statement when john kerry the secretary of state talks it's like listening to a star from thirty years. ago that is just arrived on planet earth thirty years later because what are you saying the context the paradigm that john kerry speaks of in describing ukraine and other issues of geopolitical importance was a role that thirty years ago he's not even in the twenty first century anymore also

in here in greece so you can see their situation since joining the euro first looked really nice their lifestyles are very nice down there in greece and its collapse you go there now and it's it's homelessness everywhere it's people without any health care at all now hospitals without even any pharmaceuticals or equipment because nobody will send them stuff so the only thing at this moment keeping the greeks afloat is that basically selling residency so in the article points this out is that they're selling residency for two hundred fifty thousand euros which they advertise as being better than what spain and portugal are selling for five hundred thousand euro so they're selling their residency and this is their only hope is actually putting a price on what that residency might be worth you know presumably after the titanic at the iceberg somebody was trying to sell their first class cabins you know anybody willing to fork over some bucks but sure that's

a great buy. but you know in terms of their incomes as well increase those have declined rapidly as well so making it harder for to pay these tax burden of the sevenfold increase and so you combine that's guaranteed to go down in value while you're losing money on the income stream that sounds like paulson or ben bernanke and he's gone you know one of. those still going to be all over it. oh well just take a look at this quick chart here as well this is from hans rosling a swedish professor and he said that in one thousand fifty three the g.d.p. per capita in ukraine equaled japan today is to. per capita is lower than that of china so this part of explains the unrest people are unhappy they're earning less income but so are the people in greece and spain and and portugal where there's fifty percent youth unemployment higher than fifty percent youth unemployment by the way why they are jumping over to europe or exploding and deflating and big

localizing instead of sticking with a known gas producer and of course china you know that heading east east is the direction that things are going east is the direction that gold is going east is the direction the big going is going east is the direction that silver is going east is the direction that all of our jobs from there and us went go east young man thank you i'm heading east now that's west east. station with well we've got a whole lot more. very serious. sally and parts.

we'll call it on the road side to the car skidded at breakneck speed and fell into a ditch and i was thrown out of the car it was like a broken doll it wasn't a single hold piece left us and i thought if i lived and had a chance to start my life from scratch with that i would start making goals to help children it. could go on right after he was born the baby was all in casts. his legs are getting bigger and the ortho cysts get too small so we have to order new ones said lorna has raised money for us she helps us to get a leg braces five years after my potentially fatal injuries in a car crash i gave birth to my little miss a i think she's my reward for helping all those children who is selling the dollars to buy life for the children.

this comes from the heart you know i've never even seen him in person for me this is the image of a hero the world's first cosmonaut everyone knows his name but few people ever. was yuri gagarin's iconic first spaceflights the product of good fortune or destiny. constantly fail to learn strictly he could see the ground school they started throwing punches at it was it that was a turning point. going to. well i go back to the kaiser report on my max kaiser time out to go to costa rica and speak with dimitri allah author of collapse gap and also of reinventing

collapse to me three welcome back to the kaiser report great to be with you max all right dimitri you were born in russia moved to the u.s. when you were twelve so you understand both views on this ukraine crisis first tell us the the economic story that triggered the situation in ukraine and what the fallout is today well ukraine was stuck and in this idiotic tug of war between the european union and the customs union which it is a sort of soviet union lite if you will it's it's basically a way that if it can be a former soviet territory more or less function as a borderless entity what with regard to trade a the european union what wanted ukraine in its fold for political reasons largely but really wasn't able to offer it anything. and facing bankruptcy a year the ukrainian government turned to moscow for help and and moscow obliged

with admission to the customs union and with some fifteen billion dollars of pledged support but that upset the west and so in the study of war basically whatever consensus for existed and ukraine was destroyed and this allowed a bunch of neo nazis to dive into the breach and take over the government and basically take over parliament and have the parliament do whatever it wants basically at gunpoint which is not a legitimate state of affairs but unfortunately the united states and brussels decided to recognize this new neo nazi regime in kiev and make it its own. precipitating the next the next stage of the crisis. all right what are the specifics of the e.u. trade deal which yannick over its refused to sign and what happens from here well basically the ukrainian economy is noncompetitive with the west if you just throw it open to to open competition and it would pretty much not be able to compete the

only way the ukrainians without a massive modernization would cost many tens of maybe hundreds of billions you know only way it can function is with cheap russian energy the only way to get that cheap russian energy below market is to enter into the customs union so unocal vish it's not he's not very smart by the way but he was able to recognize that entry into the european union throwing out throwing a korean economy open to the competition within the e.u. is basically the quickest road to bankruptcy imaginable and that the only way he could actually keep the whole thing afloat would be to strike a deal with moscow unfortunately this did not sit well with the u.s. state department or with brussels right now the the i.m.f. and the e.u. is what they've got the new prime minister has called for budget cuts the greek spanish portuguese and french right occasionally against austerity how will the

ukrainians take it if you get what i'm getting at here you already have a template in the. greek and other countries for what's going on the air euro zone how do you create is going to take to this well ukraine except for a few oligarchy or a fabulously rich it's already quite austere so it's very hard to impose cuts on something that's already been cut and hollowed out etc that said there's still quite a lot of fost off to be sold within ukraine you could pretty much anything that's not bolted down can be carted away and you know sold so to the chinese to smell down or whatever there's still plenty of dirt there that that's high quality dirt that can be exported well. stuff people can be sold into slavery that's probably you know the biggest profit center as far as privatizing all of ukraine people can be sold into slavery that reminds me of a couple years ago in ireland during the height of the crisis they were selling

irish pete to americans by the bag so you could have real irish dirt in your own backyard now this is a blow to party is part of the government but their policy platform calls for the nationalization of enterprise and for ending privatization are they likely to achieve this plan no not at all. i'm more likely on the lunatic fringe of european politics which seems to be in charge now they are more likely to developments have to do basically with bigotry with denying russians their linguistic and cultural rights maybe findings some juice to attack maybe some foregrounds things like that but they're not really you know they're not likely to spearhead some new economic initiative. now dimitri the british journalist author and policy analyst and a tall live and says that ukraine is further from e.u. membership now than they were before the revolution due to economic devastation so

your thoughts. well why would a mostly agrarian country with with an ancient largely obsolete industrial base that is connected very much connected to. the russian industrial base why would it want to ensure you its only way forward really is is with russia as. asked as it has always being as a component of the russian industrial machine that is really the only way it can continue to exist as it developed society if it enters the e.u. then it is automatic we bankrupt automatically noncompetitive not nobody's going to give it the hundreds of billions of euros it would take it to modernize it doesn't really have the legal apparatus that it's you know quickly becoming destroyed it's a very corrupt place so it's really doesn't stand a chance in the u.s. in the e.u.

at all right now dmitri orloff of course you came to prominence with your essays collapse gap in the follow up to that essay talking about how basically the arms race between america and soviet union has bankrupted both countries with the soviet union going bust first and the us is kind of going through a slow motion collapse over the past twenty years what can we glean from this current you can crisis that would relate to the collapse gap theory how do you fit it into your paradigm well on the one hand this is an ongoing set of rolling collapses basically to keep the core that western economic core from collapsing it's important to continue destroying countries so if we destroyed iraq we destroyed libya or destroyed syria and now are destroying ukraine and that thing is that basically whenever we destroy a country the result is massive wealth destruction that occurs somewhere other than in the economic heartland allowing the economic heartland to continue to exist at

some point we will run out of countries to destroy or they will turn out to be too difficult to destroy. so that's that's one side of you know that the collapse story the other side of the collapse story is you know collapses run their course and then you have sometimes you have resurgence so russia has gone through its collapse experience that ran its course by the late one nine hundred ninety s. when put into clover and has since been resurgent so there's this french russian federation which used to be part of the soviet union which is inhabited by russians and the russians got stuck on the wrong side of the border be in the ukraine be it and and in various parts that were formally part of the former soviet georgia and kazakhstan so these russians still have their russian citizenship and still have their citizenship rights and and and so when the west talks about you know the into visibility of some territory of a newly pronounced republic they have to keep in mind that the population of that republic is not its own. dimitri what do you make of the comments from victoria

nuland that were leaked a few days ago week ago where she's basically implying that the u.s. is a sea king to control of events in ukraine in what could be called to to some degree a bit of a coup if you will you know yet what are your thoughts on that that leaked recording of victoria nuland saying basically the e.u. should go. oh well you know everybody you know zeroed in on the f. word but the really important message is that basically nuland was coaching the ambassador on how to handle a couple of opposition figures who basically have turned out to be western operatives they've been coached for the job of taking over and they sort of did the reason i say sort of this because nuland and everybody else has been completely

blindsided by the fact that the people who are actually in power now are these neo nazis he's extreme right wing reactionary bigoted people who use violence to to get their way basically they take out the parliament in two to two legislative gunpoint and the government that has been thrust into office if you will lacks legitimacy lacks popular support russian flags are going up all over the place and i don't think it's long for this world. now to major and i listen to secretary of state john kerry talking about the situation and he's talking about in a nobody in the twenty first century would invade a country with under no pretense similarly completely oblivious to the events that in the last five or ten years that america has engaged with just stumbling into countries like iraq with no pretense he seems like he's talking from the one nine hundred fifty s. or one nine hundred sixty s. and his voice is just reaching us like the light from

a distant star he's like as if he'd never heard of wiki leaks he's never heard of the n.s.a. reveals he's never heard of the internet is he secretary of state during the arab spring it was revealed of course that the facebook revolution as it was described got traction because the head of egypt at the time mubarak had never heard of facebook had never heard of the internet and it is so they had this revolution right under the as knows is john kerry. level disconnect with the reality of social media and the internet and this is part of the collapse gap dimitri. oh he's definitely fallen into the collapse gap i'm from the state where he was senior junior senator for a really long time alongside ted kennedy and you know he's deteriorated over time so now when john kerry talks he really needs subtitles and the subtitles should always just say her on her on her on her own there's nothing really nothing else to add so you're absolutely right that you know it's stunning that right now john

kerry opens his mouth and all kinds of things come out and then you look for say the russian reaction right and the russian reaction is no comment and that's pretty much how it's going to go right now dmitri in the first half of the show stacy herbert and i were talking about globalization and the end of globalization and he sees signs of the end of globalization in a lot of ways is this yet another factor into your thesis of collapse gap in our we can you describe it as the end of globalization your thoughts well i think globalization is a bit of a disaster in some ways particularly you know it globalized as production very effectively production goes to to the lowest cost place but it doesn't globalized consumption so consumption still grows to be formally wealthy but now completely bankrupt supposedly still rich societies so there's a massive dislocation and that has got to work itself out somehow which is going to

happen at some point there's a positive side to globalization which is now we live in a in a really really mix up mixed up world where bigotry and racism of the sort we're seeing in ukraine which is you know ukraine for the ukrainian sort of thing doesn't really have a place and i think people readily recognize that the world has moved on and that these people are basically trapped in in this you know nationalist nature preserve their own construction. fair enough right there mate you're our law for out of time but thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i'd like to thank our guest imagery orloff if you'd like to get in touch tweet us at kaiser report.

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breaking news here on our international the crimean parliament unanimously votes for the region to become part of russia the move will be put to a popular ballot in ten days time meanwhile the u.s. slaps visa restrictions on russian and crimean officials also. be hard if they were going to. pull somebody from the new coalition. leaks phone call between top european officials revealed the snipers firing on the crowds and police in kiev were allegedly hired by the opposition turned leadership. in the flying bullets just like this one. at our g. crew recalls how it was caught up in a sniper fire as the team filmed in a hotel in downtown.